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Poetry

Gouged Passion

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Gouged Passion

  It tempted me with its scent, Leading me by the nose, I grumbled But I went along to the tune that crazed my mind. A red, plump fruit Begging to be split open And its essence gouged, I took a sharp knife and spun The being in my hands- Strategizing the best way To [...]

Poetry, Short Story/Prose, Thoughtful, thoughts

Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

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Pain, Love, Depression, and Joy

  “Everyone has written about pain; what makes it unique to you?” My pain is early, unbeknownst to my psyche until I became misinformed and mislead through others ambivalence. My pain levitates in the middle of two races. My pain is centuries long, my pain is past skin, hair, features, curves. My pain flickers and [...]

Poetry

Lunch Time Rush

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Lunch Time Rush

  The press of hot bodies parts like a dead sea. 1:30 on the dot, and I step out of California Pizza Kitchen and step in the crisp Jersey air. I whistle as I walk along, my eyes scanning over frozen silhouettes swaddled in spindles of threads crafted by hurried, child-like hands. A leggy blonde [...]

Poetry, Romantic

the steady dreams–

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the steady dreams–

the steady dreams that peacefully sing me asleep, I find a luxury many abandon and misuse  snuggled between your sheets. used-and-abused your eyes were once alight with such comorting joy– a calming drizzle, a gray afternoon with promises of streaks of fiery gold. you laid your heart, torn and bloody from your chest, eyes shining with [...]